The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
Acting
Gale Henry's Snoopy steals every frame she's in.
Costume
The devil costume that launched a thousand misunderstandings.
Direction
Fred Guiol's door-slamming choreography is genuinely impressive.
Director
Fred Guiol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1927 short captures the tail end of the flapper era's playful cynicism about marriage, just before the Hays Code would sanitize such frank marital squabbling.
Gale Henry was known as 'the female Chaplin' for her physical comedy—her Snoopy character here basically invents the nosy neighbor archetype that sitcoms still recycle today.
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